#94: 10 Little known interesting random facts

Historically, most pirates did not wear eye bandage because of a missing or blind eye. They simply wanted to be better prepared for a fight in the darkness inside the ship they are trying to conquer (by moving the patch to the other eye). Tweet This

Monaco and Indonesia have virtually the same national flag. Tweet This

The youngest person to be sentenced to death in the United States of America was an African-American boy, George Stinney Jr. He was executed in 1944, at the age of 14 years. Tweet This

The actor, John Cazale, appeared in five movies. They were all nominated for Oscar Academy Award for Best Picture. Tweet This

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In 2016, the University of California, USA, published a study which says in short that if you have increasing difficulties to detect sarcasm, you might be developing dementia.  Tweet This

In 1932, the US Public Health Service began a study called the “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male”. In the course of the study which dragged for over 40 years, 600 participants were not given penicillin even after it became the drug of choice for treating syphilis in 1947. Tweet This

Krishna is the name of one of the Hindu gods. According to the legends, he had more than 16,000 wives. Tweet This

In 1990, a 15-year-old girl, Nayirah, posed as an eyewitness and described the situation in Kuwait before the US Congress. Her testimony was widely publicised and influenced the US decision to attack Iraq. In fact, she was a daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the USA and her story had been totally made up. Tweet This

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Many keyboards have proved to be more efficient than QWERTY (patented back in 1868). However, we are so used to it that QWERTY remains by far the most popular keyboard. Tweet This

In 2004, US officials announced that they would shoot down any of the European Galileo navigation satellites should it be considered a threat to the US national security. Tweet This